Top 50 Digital Characters for 2021
Incredible character designs are uploaded to The Rookies every day. They range from 2D sketches of fantasy character, to detailed 3D digital doubles, and a little bit in-between
Incredible character designs are uploaded to The Rookies every day. They range from 2D sketches of fantasy character, to detailed 3D digital doubles, and a little bit in-between
Incredible character designs are uploaded to The Rookies every day. They range from 2D sketches of fantasy character, to detailed 3D digital doubles, and a little bit in-between. One thing they have in common is they are stunning pieces of artwork and need to be celebrated. Scroll down to take a quick dive into the Top 50 Digital Characters for 2021 as voted with high-fives, by our members.
Created by: Michele Boueri
Member Level: player
This artwork is the final project for my foundation term at Think Tank Online. The project was to choose a 2D concept and recreate it in 3D. I chose this concept ' The Piano Man' by Noor Sofi for its mood and atmosphere, I hope I was able to recreate it. In this project I used Maya for modeling, Mudbox for sculpting an
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ricardo Calvo
Member Level: player
Character design made in photoshop.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Saray Leal García
Member Level: debut
This is my experience during the CV Skills Championship!
View Full ProjectCreated by: Sain-Sain Thao
Member Level: player
Here is my first real-time character done for my 6-weeks intermediate final project at Think Tank. Based on the beautiful concept by Choong Yeol Lee. Hope you'll enjoy it!
View Full ProjectCreated by: David Kwahk
Member Level: contender
Project done in Tran Ma's Texturing & Shading 4 class at Gnomon. Based off a concept by Liang Mark, I haven't finished recreating the whole piece but I'm calling it done for now so I can focus on other projects before graduation. Tran was an amazing instructor and I learned so much in her class.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Alsu Rakhimova
Member Level: player
My six-week final project for Intermediate term at Think Tank Training Centre. This character is based on a powerful concept by Un Lee - "The Strongest Champion"
View Full ProjectCreated by: Albert Julià Gutiérrez
Member Level: player
This is a demon I made and painted in Zbrush, its the first paint job i made in Zbrush and was relly fun to make.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Uday Kampani
Member Level: player
Character created for the advanced term at Think Tank Online. Concept by Eve Ventrue. Environment Supervisor - Nikhil Kedige: https://www.artstation.com/nikhilkedige Prop Artist - Rohan Nanjappa: https://www.artstation.com/nanjapparohan Huge thanks to my colleagues and supervisor for all the support!
View Full ProjectCreated by: Marcos Martinez Marco
Member Level: contender
This is Leo, the cartoon character I made at Animum3D School. Concept by Luigi Lucarelli
View Full ProjectCreated by: Dinh Bui
Member Level: player
Character designs for my game, Nightmare Lab, a cool game i worked on for my 2nd trimester student project.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Séréna Longo
Member Level: player
I'm happy to share with you my last 3D school project! The modeling is based on photogrammetry, this project was a good way to discover the XYZ workflow. I had a lot of fun with the grooming part Thanks for watching !
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ricardo Calvo
Member Level: player
Illustration based on a "One Piece" scene, Sanji and Zoro in Wano saving Toko.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Raphaël Banget-Mossaz
Member Level: player
This is the final project of my third year of school at New3dge. I chose to make a character I like a lot from the great game Hades. I used the concepts of Jen Zee and the 3D models of Paige Carter as references for my work.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Adrián Rojas
Member Level: debut
I can only say that I am delighted with the result. After several months of work and even more of dreaming about this moment, I have managed to create my first character totally Game Ready. I hope you like it.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Tommaso Noseda
Member Level: player
Real-Time Character created for my mentorship at Think Tank Training Centre Online. Huge thanks to my Mentor, Saurabh Jethani. For my last project i wanted to attempt a likeness of Snoop Dogg, inspired by the amazing concept of Yongbin Lee / dylan: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/
View Full ProjectCreated by: Charalampos Lampros
Member Level: contender
This cyborg is the last character that i made for my college. It was inspired by the movies Alita: The Battle Angel and Ghost in The Shell.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Uday Kampani
Member Level: player
Hey everyone, here's another speed sculpt. Concept by Maxim Verehin. Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/d8DQ6w
View Full ProjectCreated by: Clemens Niklos
Member Level: player
just testing out a few blendshapes for this character. Dont have the time to finish the full char right now, but please do let me know what you think of it so far^^
View Full ProjectCreated by: Tristan McGuire
Member Level: rookie
University final major project - Realtime fanart of Johnny Silverhand (Keanu Reeves) from Cyberpunk 2077.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Natalia de Grado
Member Level: player
Hi! this illustration it's part of my final proyect for class.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ricardo Calvo
Member Level: player
Illustration made in Photoshop.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ricardo Calvo
Member Level: player
Speed Painting made in Photoshop.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ana Duran
Member Level: player
Belle is one of the characters ni a new project
View Full ProjectCreated by: Xenia Sunye (Makiblue)
Member Level: contender
Kai'sa fanart fro League of Legends
View Full ProjectCreated by: Antonio Rosiello
Member Level: contender
I always loved Tooth Wu's style and I decided to translate his concept in 3D and experiment more with hand painted syle and stylized anatomy.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ambre Boué
Member Level: rookie
Concept by Tena Galovic
View Full ProjectCreated by: Rebeca Pacheco
Member Level: player
Concept art of my original character named Marie. This is her first design that includes a final illustration and its process, expressions sheet, cloth tests and turn around (for 3D model).
View Full ProjectCreated by: Oliver Ormar Ingvarsson
Member Level: debut
Concept by: Thibaud Pourplanche My Foundation Final Projcet at Think Tank Online. Really fun projcet to work on and learned a lot during the process. My first character I work on. (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8ey5Ox)
View Full ProjectCreated by: Guilherme Marques
Member Level: player
I always desire to do my own Darth Maul. So, I decided to take his sculpt up for a bit. Therefore, this is the final result. Hope you like it. follow me on Instagram to know further about the process and more. @glhrmarques
View Full ProjectCreated by: Jaydo de Ruijter
Member Level: player
An 8 week project I worked on last year. Creating a game ready character. https://www.artstation.com/artwork/oA3e9L
View Full ProjectCreated by: Daniel Martinez
Member Level: contender
This is a 3D version of the concept character by Aifan IF (if_aifan.artstation.com). In this project I wanted to make the whole process of the production of a character from the moment the design is given to a modeler.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Gia Han Lam
Member Level: player
No Face enjoying a peaceful and warm moment. Starting 2021 with my first finished project, a Spirited Away scene! Everything was either modeled or sculpted by me in Zbrush and 3DSmax, retopo'ed in Maya en textured in Substance painter and Quixel Mixer. Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/L3BGLl
View Full ProjectCreated by: Leonardo Amico
Member Level: player
Project Divjak | 1937 was my first time sculpting and texturing a human bust, I was responsable for all aspects. This was also my final project for the Intermediate Term at Think TankTraining Centre.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Tristan McGuire
Member Level: rookie
Personal project - Realtime fanart of Mollymauk from Critical Role.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Swann VALENZA
Member Level: player
This is Edward, the main character of the short film I'm currently working on alone. This are only wips and look dev, but I'm very proud of the result ! Hope you like it !
View Full ProjectCreated by: Tamer Yagli
Member Level: contender
Dwarf Warrior game character running realtime in Unreal Engine 4
View Full ProjectCreated by: Ricardo Calvo
Member Level: player
Character design made in photoshop.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Florian Petiteau
Member Level: rookie
Thanos is back! I attempted to bring the Titan back in a stylized version in less than a week. I was able to experiment a little more with Mudbox sculpting and test new ways of working my surfacing with Renderman. Hope you liked it!
View Full ProjectCreated by: Juan Pablo Torres
Member Level: player
Fanart of the League of Legends character Ekko, made for my advanced Characters for film term, at Think Tank Online.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Alexander Zlotin
Member Level: contender
I am grateful to Think Tank Training Center for being the awesome school that it is, where I could have done this mentorship project. I would like to thank my mentor Marco Menco who taught me so much. Also thanks to Nicolas Niño who helped me a lot during the processes. Based on Ölvnir "The Ogre" by Miguel Iglesias.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Carlos Belmonte Arráez
Member Level: player
This is the model I've been working during the last three weeks after watching the awesome LOKI series.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Houra Ershad
Member Level: contender
Here's my advanced term final project for Think tank online program, a likeness of actress Golshifteh Farahani. Her love for music, her country and its culture was my source of inspiration for the concept. Huge thanks to my supervisor Raffael Frank my family and friends, and all the supportive people in Think tank.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Elena Giuliani
Member Level: player
This is my Foundation final project Theurgy, done at Think Tank Training Centre and based on the amazing homonym concept made by Zeen Chin
View Full ProjectCreated by: Belén Amat
Member Level: player
Project in which I had to create a render that ressembled as close as possible a concept art of our choice. I chose N. Kim's illustration specially because it had various elements that could make me test and improve my skills, including being able to get the mood of the concept.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Alejandro Díaz Magán
Member Level: contender
The Hollow Knight - fanart I did as a quick practice on working from a reference. Based on an illustration by the amazing Tyler Ellis
View Full ProjectCreated by: Gia Han Lam
Member Level: player
A project I made earlier this year for the Grads in Games Challenge in the Character Art category :) I was lucky enough to end up as the winner for the Rising Star competition! We had to create a game ready character within a month, which was a great learning experience and challenge! Based on Airi Pan's concept :)
View Full ProjectCreated by: Marina Llorente
Member Level: contender
This is the project I've been working on during the past month, based on the concept of the amazing Even Mehl Amundsen.
View Full ProjectCreated by: Khoi Nguyen
Member Level: contender
Hey guys, here's my lastest work - the elder. It's inspired by lovely old ladies from Yunnan. All the details was hand sculpted in Zbrush following Kris Costa method, texturing with Substance Painter and xgen for hair, Maya Arnold renderer. Cheer!
View Full ProjectCreated by: Yano Claeys
Member Level: contender
I made this character for the grads in games challenge! Since this was my first time doing the full character workflow I learned a lot while making this. original concept made by Alessandro Rossi
View Full ProjectCreated by: Franziska Milius
Member Level: player
Hi everyone, this character is the first project I created as part of my Demo Reel. Sculpted and textured in ZBrush and rendered with Arnold.
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